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Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

By: William Oliver Strunk

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Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

By: William Oliver Strunk

This volume celebrates the life and work of William Oliver Strunk (1901-1980), professor of musicology at Princeton University, eminent scholar and author, and beloved teacher. It presents the papers from a conference held on January 18-19, 2002 at the American Academy in Rome and the Badia Greca of Grottaferrata. Some of these have been expanded for publication, and one additional contribution has been included.

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Source Readings in Music History

By: William Oliver Strunk

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Source Readings in Music History

By: William Oliver Strunk

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Source Readings in Music History

By: William Oliver Strunk

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Source Readings in Music History

By: William Oliver Strunk

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

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Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

By: William Oliver Strunk

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A History of the Sonata Idea

Volume 2: The Sonata in the Classic Era

By: William S. Newman

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A History of the Sonata Idea

Volume 2: The Sonata in the Classic Era

By: William S. Newman

This definitive volume, the second, largest, and most central in Newman's History of the Sonata Idea, covers the period from the first sample Italian sonatas using the new techniques of the Alberti bass about 1735 to the succession of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven which extended until about 1820. It is one of the few books to deal exclusively with the classical era in music. Originally published in 1963. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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1469643731

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Renaissance Culture in Context

Theory and Practice

By: Jean R. Brink,William F. Gentrup

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Renaissance Culture in Context

Theory and Practice

By: Jean R. Brink,William F. Gentrup

Scholarly traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have led us to assume that national traditions were defining in a way that they may not have been during the Renaissance, when Latin remained an international language. This collection interrogates the historical importance of national traditions, many of which depend upon geographical boundaries that took their shape only after the emergence of the nation state in the modern period. In a seminal essay on Scottish literature, R.D.S. Jack delineates the problems of defining a national literature. Zirka Zaremba Filipczak traces connections between Italy and The Netherlands while Jozef Ijsewijn examines the use of Italian models by neo-Latin authors and Francis M. Higman offers a preliminary study of European translations of Reformation authors. Paul W. Knoll reminds us that the division between western and eastern Europe dates from this century by demonstrating the impact of Italian humanism on Polish universities. Divisions among disciplines are also challenged by the contributors to this volume. Arthur F. Kinney brilliantly shows that literature is enriched by an understanding of historical and political texts. Jacqueline L. Glomski questions the division between historiography and art while Howard Mayer Brown indicates the importance of literary concepts such as rhetoric and genre for the Italian madrigal, and Norman K. Farmer, Jr, of theological texts for interpreting poetry. Minna Skafte Jensen traces the impact of a major reformer on some Danish poets. Conceptual forms of internationality are explored in essays by Bart Westerweel on time, Bruce P. Lenman on geography, and Karen Skovgaard-Petersena and Karin Tilmans on historiography. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a compelling and persuasive justification for an interdisciplinary and international aproach to the study of Renaissance culture.

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Routledge

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1351904450

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Beautiful Ugliness

Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts

By: Mark William Roche

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Beautiful Ugliness

Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts

By: Mark William Roche

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art. Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection, intellectual-historical analysis, and interpretations of a large number of works from the arts. The study is driven by the recognition that, though ugliness is usually understood as the opposite of beauty, ugliness nonetheless contributes significantly to the beauty of many artworks. Roche’s analysis unfolds in three parts. The first offers a refreshing conceptual analysis of ugliness in art. The second considers the history of ugliness in art and literature, with special attention to its role in Christian art and its central place in modern and contemporary art. The third synthesizes earlier material, offering a taxonomy of beautiful ugliness derived from Hegelian philosophical categories. Roche mesmerizes the reader with an extraordinary range of literary scholarship and expertise, with a particular focus on English, Latin, and German literature, and with a broad range of analyzed phenomena, including fine arts, architecture, and music. Including 63 color illustrations, Beautiful Ugliness will draw in readers from multiple disciplines as well as those from beyond the academy who wish to make sense of today’s complex art world.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268207003

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Monstrous Opera

Rameau and the Tragic Tradition

By: Charles William Dill

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Monstrous Opera

Rameau and the Tragic Tradition

By: Charles William Dill

One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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0691044430

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Puccini's Turandot

The End of the Great Tradition

By: William Ashbrook,Harold Powers

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Puccini's Turandot

The End of the Great Tradition

By: William Ashbrook,Harold Powers

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.

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1400866677

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Horatio Parker, 1863-1919

His Life, Music, and Ideas

By: William Kearns

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Horatio Parker, 1863-1919

His Life, Music, and Ideas

By: William Kearns

During the early 1900s, Horatio Parker was one of the best-known composers in the United States. He received numerous commissions and was a patriarchal figure among America's Protestant church musicians and choral societies; his symphonic works were performed by the leading orchestras of the day; and he headed the Yale School of Music for twenty-five years. Kearns's study is a thorough analysis of the circumstances leading to Parker's popularity in pre- World War I America and his neglect thereafter. The book includes a detailed narration of the composer's life and an extensive description of his major works. Over fifty examples of his music are included, as well as a comprehensive listing of works and writings.

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382

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Scarecrow Press

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081082292X

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Letters of Roy Bedichek

By: William A. Owens

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Letters of Roy Bedichek

By: William A. Owens

Although Roy Bedichek published less than his more famous friends J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, he wrote voluminously and, many say, with more distinction than the others. In addition to his four published books, Bedichek produced a great number of letters through which he communicated his broad interests and deep learning to a wide variety of correspondents. Prefaced by a biographical sketch, this volume presents a collection of Bedichek letters that give us an insight into his literary and creative development—from his earliest years through his career at the University of Texas and on into his later years. They include letters to his closest associates, J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, and to many old friends, such as William A. Owens, John A. Lomax, and John Henry Faulk. Also included is Bedichek's correspondence with other contemporaries, not all old friends, among them Texas Governor James Ferguson, the recipient of some of Bedichek's most trenchant criticism. Throughout this collection, Bedichek's sparkling wit and profound learning are evident as he discusses his favorite subjects, among them ecology, education, literature, politics, and history, frequently related to Texas. When Roy Bedichek gave his collection of letters to the Barker Collection in the University of Texas Library, he designated William A. Owens as the authorized editor of the letters, with the restriction that none of them be published until seven years following his death, which came in 1959.

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0292717873

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9780292717879

Mac OS X Maximum Security

By: John Ray,William Ray

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Mac OS X Maximum Security

By: John Ray,William Ray

While Mac OS X is becoming more and more stable with each release, its UNIX/BSD underpinnings have security implications that ordinary Mac users have never before been faced with. Mac OS X can be used as both a powerful Internet server, or, in the wrong hands, a very powerful attack launch point. Yet most Mac OS X books are generally quite simplistic -- with the exception of the author's "Mac OS X Unleashed," the first book to address OS X's underlying BSD subsystem. "Maximum Mac OS X Security" takes a similar UNIX-oriented approach, going into significantly greater depth on OS X security topics: Setup basics, including Airport and network topology security. User administration and resource management with NetInfo. Types of attacks, how attacks work, and how to stop them. Network service security, such as e-mail, Web, and file sharing. Intrusion prevention and detection, and hands-on detection tools.

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Sams Publishing

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0672323818

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9780672323812

Source Readings in Music History: The late eighteenth century

By: William Oliver Strunk,Wye Jamison Allanbrook,Leo Treitler

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Source Readings in Music History: The late eighteenth century

By: William Oliver Strunk,Wye Jamison Allanbrook,Leo Treitler

In The Late Eighteenth Century, Wye Jamison Allanbrook presents twenty-six readings that reveal how the music establishment of 1750-1800 saw itself.

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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0393966984

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9780393966985

The Birth of Opera

By: Frederick William Sternfeld

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The Birth of Opera

By: Frederick William Sternfeld

F. W. Sternfeld examines the role of poets and composers in establishing the new genre of opera in northern Italy around 1600. He discusses the problems of sung drama, particularly the required happy ending and its foil, the lament, and highlights the enduring appeal, from Poliziano through toMonteverdi, to Stravinsky, of the story of Orpheus the divine singer.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198165730

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Book's by William Oliver Strunk

Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

Source Readings in Music History

Source Readings in Music History

Source Readings in Music History

Source Readings in Music History

Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar

A History of the Sonata Idea

A History of the Sonata Idea

Renaissance Culture in Context

Renaissance Culture in Context

Beautiful Ugliness

Beautiful Ugliness

Monstrous Opera

Monstrous Opera

Puccini's Turandot

Puccini's Turandot

Horatio Parker, 1863-1919

Horatio Parker, 1863-1919

Letters of Roy Bedichek

Letters of Roy Bedichek

Mac OS X Maximum Security

Mac OS X Maximum Security

Source Readings in Music History: The late eighteenth century

Source Readings in Music History: The late eighteenth century

The Birth of Opera

The Birth of Opera

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